What about having one of these?
http://www.emc.com/products/detail/hardware/clariion-ax4.htm
or something like this if you want to go insane?
http://www.emc.com/products/series/cx3-ultrascale-series.htm
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
>> Quoting Nick Moffitt (nick at zork.net):
>> > Surely if you're going SATA, it's trivial to buy an external drive
> > enclosure with its own power supply, and connect to your SATA controller
> > from there.
>> eSATA would indeed be one inexpensive way to do it.
>> You have to somehow support a very large number of SATA connections off
> a relative few SATA HBA cards and motherboard connectors: There might
> be problems or bottlenecks of the sort people don't really anticipate
> because almost nobody (or literally nobody) tested that particular
> configuration.
>> Let's face it; we're talking about a rather large number of drives, and
> that's seldom done with ATA _other_ than mediated by hardware
> abstraction devices like 3Ware or Coraid boxes.
>